Amityville Ghost House

In December 1975, George and Kathleen and their children moved into a house at 112 Ocean Avenue, a Dutch colonial mansion in Amityville, a suburban neighborhood in southern Long Island, New York.

Thirteen months before the Lutz family moved in, Ronald DeFeo, Jr.., The previous owner, had shot dead six members of his family in the house. After 28 days Lutz family lived in that house, they began to feel strange things with the house.

This section is based on a book by Jay Anson, 1977, The Amityville Horror - A True Story.

Jay Anson (1921-1980), is the author of The Amityville Horror

The house numbered 112 in Ocean Avenue has been vacant for 13 months after the DeFeo killings, until in December 1975 Lutz family bought the house for $ 80,000. The house has six bedrooms is built in the Dutch colonial style, and has a curved roof. The house is equipped with a swimming pool and a house boat storage. George and Kathy were married in July 1975 and have homes of their own, but would like to start afresh with a new home. Kathy had three children from a previous marriage, Daniel (9), Christopher (7), and Melissa aka Missy (5). They also have a Labrador dog named Harry. During their current pengecekkan would buy the house, the agents they have been notified of a murder committed by DeFeo, but they considered it was not a problem.

Lutz moved the family home on December 18, 1975. Most of the DeFeo family furniture was still there, because everything is included in the sale and purchase agreement. A friend of George Lutz learned about the past history of the house, and urged them to do the blessing. But they do not understand his ways. George knew a Catholic priest named Father Ray, and he was willing to do the blessing. (In Anson's book is mentioned the name Reverend Father Mancuso. This is done to maintain the privacy of the Pastor, his real name was Father Ralph J. Pecoraro).

Father Mancuso was a lawyer, Catholic priest and a psychotherapist who lived at Sacred Heart Rectory. He arrived to perform the blessing on the afternoon of December 18, 1975 when George and Kathy were unpacking their belongings. When he flicked the first holy water and began to pray, he heard a voice clearly saying "Get out!". While leaving the house, he did not mention it to George and Kathy. On December 24, 1975, Father Mancuso telephoned George Lutz and advised him not to use the room in which he had heard a strange noise. This space is a space that Kathy planned to use as a sewing room, and the bedroom was Marc and John Matthew DeFeo. The calls abruptly disconnected, and a subsequent visit to the house of the Father Mancuso cause high fever and found marks on his arms similar to stigmata marks.

At first, George and Kathy Lutz does not feel strange to their homes. But then, they feel that "each one of their lives in a different house."

Some of the Lutz family's experience is described as follows:

* George always woke up at about 3:15 every morning, and then out to the storage vessel. When was the estimated time in which the DeFeo killings.

* Their home is always plagued by a swarm of flies in each winter.

* Kathy had vivid nightmares about the murder and the time when he made the purchase agreement of the house. Their children also began sleeping with a lying face, the same position when the body was found DeFeo.

* Kathy felt as if "being embraced" in a loving manner, by an unseen force.

* Kathy discovered a small hidden room (around four feet) behind the basement. The walls were painted red and the room did not appear in the blueprints of the house. The room was then known as "The Red Room". This room has an influence on their dog Harry, who refused to go near it and cowered as if sensing something negative.

* There were cold spots and odors of perfume and excrement in areas of the house, where there are no drafts or piping would explain the source.

* Their daughter who was five years old, Missy, developed an imaginary friend named "Jodie" who had red eyes.

* George always awakened by the sound of slamming the front door. He would race downstairs to find the dog sleeping soundly at the front door. No one else heard it except him.

* George would hear what was described as a "German marching band" or sound like a radio that is not set to the right frequency. But when he went to the floor below, the noise will stop.

* George realized that he bore a strong resemblance to Ronald DeFeo, Jr.., And began bermabukan in The Witches' Brew, the bar where DeFeo was one of his customers.

* When checking the storage vessel in the night, George saw a pair of red eyes that were watching him from Missy's bedroom window. When she went upstairs to her room, she did not find anything. Then concluded that it was "Jodie".

* While in bed, Kathy received red welts chest caused by an unseen force and was levitated two feet off the bed.

* Key, windows and doors were damaged by an unseen force.

* There are large parts of the animal nail in the snow which is then connected to a large pig on January 1, 1976.

* From the walls of the hall and the key hole of the door of the playroom in the attic out the green slime.

* A 12-inch crucifix hung in the room Kathy was upside down and the sour smell.

* George tripped by a Chinese ceramic lion that has a height of about four feet, which then left the bite marks on one of his ankles.

* George saw Kathy transform into an old woman of about the 90's, "with her hair disheveled, his face with wrinkles and in bad shape, and saliva dripping from the toothless mouth."

George and Kathy Lutz surrounded by a variety of media to review their cases

Having decided that there was something wrong with their homes, which can not be explained rationally, George and Kathy Lutz perform a blessing of their own way on January 8, 1976. George holds a cross made of silver while both recite prayers of the Kings, and from their living room, supposedly a lot oang voice chorus, urging them to stop: "Will you stop!".

In mid-January 1976, and after the blessing of the business conducted by George and Kathy, they experienced an incident which later became the last night they were in the house. Lutzes that any event that occurs as a very scary thing, "too frightening".

After consulting with Father Mancuso, they decided to take some belongings and decided to stay at home mom Kathy near Deer Park, New York. On January 14, 1976, George and Kathy Lutz with her three children and their dog Harry, left the house and left a lot of stuff behind the house. The next day, a worker assigned to move the goods to be shipped to the Lutz family. He reported no abnormal phenomenon in the house.

This book was written after Tam Mossman, an editor at Prentice Hall publishers who introduced George and Kathy Lutz to Jay Anson. They do not work directly with Anson, but submitted via tape recordings that lasted about 45 hours, which later became the basis for this book. Estimated sales of this book reach ten million copies of several editions. Anson said to take basic title his book "The Amityville Horror" from "The Dunwich Horror" by HP Lovecraft, published in 1929.